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Zeichner, Noah – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
The author, a teacher in the Seattle public schools, tells the story of a movement begun by teachers at Garfield High School who in January 2013 voted unanimously to refuse to administer the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test. The MAP boycott spread to seven more Seattle schools, and teachers at 10 more schools signed statements of support.…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Teacher Leadership, Activism, Resistance to Change
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Jacoby, Daniel F.; Nitta, Keith – Educational Policy, 2012
Striking for nine days in 2008, teachers in Bellevue carved a distinctive path through the contradictory movements for professional reform unionism and national accountability. In addition to compensation, Bellevue's teachers struck over the top-down prescriptive management epitomized by the Gates Foundation supported "Curriculum Web."…
Descriptors: Teacher Strikes, Unions, Educational Change, Administrative Change